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Rain of Fire

This 71-page report provides witness accounts of the devastating effects that white phosphorus munitions had on civilians and civilian property in Gaza. Human Rights Watch researchers in Gaza immediately after hostilities ended found spent shells, canister liners, and dozens of burnt felt wedges containing white phosphorus on city streets, apartment roofs, residential courtyards, and at a United Nations school. The report also presents ballistics evidence, photographs, and satellite im..

Human rights watch accuses Israel of committing war crimes during war on Gaza

A report issued by the New York-based human rights watch (HRW) charged IOF troops with using deliberately and extensively white phosphorus bombs on densely populated areas during the war on the Gaza Strip which "might constitute" war crimes..

4 Sharqiyya, 1 Alexandria MB Activists Arrested

Security forces arrested four MB activists in Ashmun Center early Thursday morning, March 26 after raiding their houses...

Palestinian gov’t: Israeli escalations in O. Jerusalem require int’l position

The Palestinian government on Tuesday condemned the escalating Israeli actions to judaize occupied Jerusalem, considering the Israeli persistence in demolishing Palestinian homes and vacating the holy city of its indigenous people a serious crime requiring an international position against these racist practices..

MB Activist Detained, Another’s Detention Renewed

Egyptian State Security forces arrested Kafr El-Sheikh MB member Ayman Abdul-Lateef Mohamed, on Monday, March 23, after raiding his house..

Falk to submit to UN human rights council report on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza

Press reports revealed that UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine Richard Falk would submit on Monday to the UN human rights council his first report on Israeli war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip..

POMED: This Week’s Events

7:00-9:00: AUSIS: Alienation and Exile in the Arab World: Tamim Al-Bargouti 7:00-9:00: Politics and Prose: Engaging the Muslim World with Juan Cole..

Mishaal: Obama using new language towards Middle East

Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, has opined on Sunday that US president Barack Obama was using a new language in the American relations with the Middle East, pointing out that an opening of official US and European channels for dialog with Hamas is only a matter of time..

European campaign condemns IOF troops’ practices at Gaza borders

The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza on Sunday strongly denounced the practices of Israeli occupation forces at the Gaza commercial crossings which are intended for humiliating the Palestinian citizens through expectorating in food transported into the Gaza Strip..

Nunu: Haneyya asked Obama to turn his words into deeds

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has asked the new American president Barack Obama to actualize his slogan of "change" and to amend the American policy toward the Middle East in general and the Palestine cause in particular, Taher Al-Nunu, the government spokesman said..

Kuwait MB: Looking Forward To Forming Coalition Government With Future Vision

The movement considered the publicizing of the cabinet’s resignation letter which criticized by allusion some of the MPs as harmful to the objective nature of constitutional practice. The movement’s MPs, on the other hand, affirmed that they were keen on using legislative and monitorial tools responsibly and objectively without harming the nation’s unity, security, or figures adding that “the probes presented by the movement’s MPs to the Prime Minister conformed with the movement’s co..

Haneyya legal advisor: Gov’t collecting evidence on Israeli war crimes

Dr. Mohammed Abed, the legal advisor to PA premier Ismail Haneyya, has underlined that the Palestinian government was collecting evidence on Israeli war crimes in Gaza in preparation for putting those responsible on trial..

Stacher on the Brothers and the Wars

Friend of the blog and academic Joshua Stacher, who focuses on authoritarianism, Islamist movements and other fun things (and thus knows a lot about Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party and the Muslim Brothers) has a new piece out in Middle East Report. It’s about the Brothers’ behavior during the Gaza war, and more widely the diverse theories about the divisions that may or may not exist within the group. He argues that the havioc wrought on the region by the Bush administration, ..

Hamas deplores Israel’s ban on events marking Jerusalem as Arab cultural capital

The Hamas Movement on Saturday strongly denounced the Israeli occupation authority for barring the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem from holding events marking the designation of Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture for 2009 and arresting the organizers, stressing that such arbitrary actions are aimed to obliterate the Arab and Islamic identity of the holy city..

IOF troops wound two US activists and one Palestinian in weekly Bil’in protest

Three protesters including two US activists were wounded when IOF troops shot rubber-coated bullets at them and many others suffered suffocation as a result of inhaling tear gas during the weekly anti-wall Bil’in demonstration..

British MP Galloway Barred from Canada Over ’Supporting Hamas’

Outspoken British anti-war member of parliament (MP) George Galloway Friday denounced as "outrageous" a decision by the Canadian authorities to refuse him entry on the grounds of national security...

UN Envoy: Gaza Op Seems to be War Crime of Greatest Magnitude

A United Nations human rights investigator said on Thursday that Israel’s offensive against Hamas in densely populated Gaza appeared to constitute a war crime of the "greatest magnitude."..

Baraka: Testimonies of Israeli soldiers enough to indict leaders of war crimes

Arab member in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) MP Mohammed Barak has asserted Thursday that the testimonies of Israeli soldiers participated in the war on Gaza could serve as clear and irrefutable evidence to indict the Israeli occupation leaders of war crimes...

POMED Notes: Democracy and Conflict

Do transitions to democracy dampen violent, extremist forces or ignite them? Yesterday afternoon, POMED and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a panel discussion on the relationship between democratization and conflict, asking whether democratization is likely to be a force for stability or unrest in the Middle East...

Hamas: Israel will fail to blackmail us through kidnapping our leaders in WB

The Hamas Movement highlighted Thursday that the kidnapping campaign waged by Israel against its leaders in the West Bank and the threats to escalate violations against Palestinian prisoners would never succeed in blackmailing it into making concessions on the prisoner swap deal or any issues related to the rights of the Palestinian people..